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Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams will complete the console circuit with its debut on Wii U on September 5 in the Americas. The game is priced at $14.99 and, according to developer Black Forest Games, will be released in the US, Brazil and Mexico Nintendo eShoppes.

"Our sales on Wii U eShop in Europe are even better than those on PSN Europe. Now we are very curious to see how much the US Nintendo-fans like our game," said Adrian Goersch, managing director at Black Forest.

The Wii U version of Giana fully supports the game through the WiiPad, along with a super easy mode for casual palyers (hardcore and überhardcore are still supported).

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US Release Date for Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Wii U
Black Forest Games' twisted platformer available on Nintendo eShop on 9/05.
Offenburg, August 30, 2013 &#8211; On September 5, 2013 Nintendo fans in the US will be able to purchase GIANA SISTERS: TWISTED DREAMS in Nintendo's eShop for $14.99.
After a hugely successful campaign on Kickstarter and releases for Windows-PC, Xbox360 and PS3, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams will be finally available for Nintendo fans in the US, making this the first Kickstarted project that hits all major gaming platforms worldwide. New features include an easy mode for casual and mid-core gamers. This helps refine their skills to meet the challenges of the Hardcore and Uberhardcore game modes. As a feature unique to the Wii U version, the game utilizes the Wii U GamePad as a mobile playing device.
"Our sales on Wii U eShop in Europe are even better than those on PSN Europe. Now we are very curious to see, how much the US Nintendo-fans like our game." Adrian Goersch, Managing Director BFG comments.
Participation in Steam Greenlight Anniversary Sales
As one of the first developers to pass Steam's Greenlight process, Black Forest Games also announced their participation in the Greenlight Anniversary Sales this weekend. To celebrate this with their community, Steam is offering Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams at a discount of 75 % this weekend.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Wii U Features
&#8226; Mobile &#8211; fully playable on the Wii U GamePad.
&#8226; Casual welcome &#8211; New easy mode for casual gamers. Hardcore and Uberhardcore Mode still supported.
&#8226; Challenging Levels &#8211; Discover three distinctive worlds with 23 challenging levels. Each one transforms from fluffy nightmare to spooky dream by a push of a button.
&#8226; Personal Style &#8211; Whether you like speed run through each of the amazing levels or take your time exploring even the last secret of Giana's dreams. It's up to you.
&#8226; Lush graphics &#8211; Detailed landscapes morph from lush, colorful surroundings to surreal, spiky nightmare worlds. It doesn't matter how often you'll see it, you'll detect new details every time.
&#8226; Amazing puzzles &#8211; Blocked pathways open up when Giana transforms: pretty flower beds mutate to thorn covered bushes and diamonds can only be collected in one form or the other.
&#8226; Legendary Soundtrack &#8211; listen to Chris Hülsbeck's tunes changing from Chiptune to the metal riffs from SID-Rockers Machinae Supremacy.
&#8226; Epic battles &#8211; from vicious gargoyles to magnificent boss-monsters. You'll need every trick in your sleeves to master all the challenges that lie ahead of Giana.

Quotes:
"Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is an aesthetically pleasing journey that's as gorgeous as it is taxing, blending new ideas and old concepts in the same way punk and cute Giana co-exist."
Esmeralda Portillo, Inside gaming daily/Machinima
"Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is an admirable effort that provides an innovative, entertaining and highly challenging experience."
Martin Watts, nintendolife.com
"...it's a very thoughtfully arranged, challenging platformer that six months after its initial release holds up just as well. This currently is, quite frankly, the jump and run of choice."
Martin Woger, Eurogamer.de

About Black Forest Games:
Founded in 2012, Black Forest Games is an independent game studio focused on high-quality video games. The studio is based in Offenburg, Germany, and currently employs a team of 40 international industry professionals who specialize in building games for all major game platforms. For more information on Black Forest Games please visit the official website at www.black-forest-games.com.

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The main reason for going to the Wii U eShop is that we want to learn what the sales really are on this platform. Unfortunately, none of the digital download majors (Steam, PSN, XBLA, eShop) are providing sales data to developers, or anyone else. That is like flying an X-Wing through the Death Stars corridors without The Force. So, we have to find out ourselves.

So far we have an idea what it means to be top five on Steam, PSN, XBLA. Lets see what it means for eShop. For our next game, we will make our decisions based on the lessons we learned. And there are some hard lessons weve learned.

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Indie success on the 3DS and WiiU are decently high. I know the whole there's nothing else to buy jokes will wear themselves out here. Nintendo has generally made a pretty decent opportunity for smaller developers. Nintendo has turned around a ton since the wii shop

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If all DLC came tied to $13 figurines, I'd consider all DLC to be free

Great to see it perform well on the eShop - which kinda makes sense since there is way less competition on the WiiU right now compared to what the PS3 offers digital wise and on retail. Its still a positive news after the Rayman Legends UK WiiU version charting above the other versions.

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A very cool game that's difficulty reminds me of Rayman Origins in that it's pretty easy to complete the levels but the collection runs, speed runs, and hardcore runs adds the challenge. And mannnnn, that final boss fight

I might pick games like this up if they offer multiple keys for one overall price, or maybe something like they see you bought a game on steam, so for a dollar more, you can get a key for the console platform of your choice.

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This is gonna sound absurd but I suck at wording some of my thoughts so bear with me.

The reason I think this sold so well on the Wii U is prob. because the system has more 'younger' demograph.
While I'm glad it sold well on Wii U, it's a shame it didn't on PSN, I grabbed it day 1 off US PSN, need to get back into it though =P

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Does anyone know how well this runs on the Wii U? I'd like to get it, but I wanna know if it has a solid framerate. I actually own it on PC, but it runs kinda iffy to me. Especially when I got up to the first boss, it kinda ruined the experience. I'd be glad to double dip on Wii U if it runs solid.

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Does anyone know how well this runs on the Wii U? I'd like to get it, but I wanna know if it has a solid framerate. I actually own it on PC, but it runs kinda iffy to me. Especially when I got up to the first boss, it kinda ruined the experience. I'd be glad to double dip on Wii U if it runs solid.